IPv6

Tomas Carnecky

While making http://rubygems.org use IPv6 may be
possible in the short term, RubyGems uses mirror sites to serve up
gems including Amazon AWS. At this time it's not possible to have
end-to-end IPv6 for downloading gems.

PS: I wish we could bring IPv6 quickly, I've had an IPv6 tunnel
at home for nearly nine years now.

I had to resort to hacky workarounds when I recently set up a
IPv6-only box. My hosting provider supports native IPv6 - is it of
any help if I offer a v6 mirror? The way I see it, rubygems.org
currently doesn't have AAAA records; by adding one (and pointing it
to an IPV6 enabled machine) we could transparently add IPv6.

DISCLAIMER: I haven't done any read-up on how rubygems does its
mirroring.